Cublain Quotes & Sayings

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore. — Christian Fennesz

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. — Rahm Emanuel

Travelling on the known path is intelligence;
travelling on an unknown path is boldness.
Making your own path is greatness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every time two boys kiss, it opens up the world a little bit more. — David Levithan

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion. — Joseph Conrad

As well as the factory euthanasia and mass poisoning of undesirables and sicklies and uglies, it was the policy of all Earth system settlements that all newborn babies should be carefully scrutinised. And any infant which didn't get the requisite number of ticks on his or her Future Citizen's Examination (with categories including pre-natal health, birth weight, potential IQ, and parental DNA mix) would be terminated. Abortion was, in fact, a thing of the past; infanticide was now considered to be a much fairer method of quality control. — Philip Palmer

Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You were the only one I saw when I closed my eyes," he said bringing his hand up to her chin and tilting her head up to look into his crystal clear blue eyes.
"Then why wasn't I enough when they were open?" she asked another tear welling in her eyes. — K.A. Linde

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. — Barack Obama

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target. — Aimee Mullins

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever — Dalai Lama

Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week. — Ann Leckie